PEOPLE v. RODRIGUEZ (2025)

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jonathan Svetkey, J., at plea;  Laurie Peterson, J., at sentencing), rendered January 26, 2024, purporting to convict defendant of two counts of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to concurrent jail terms of one year, unanimously modified, to the extent of vacating the sentence imposed on the second count, and otherwise affirmed.

The sentencing court, erroneously believing that defendant pled guilty to two counts, sentenced him to two concurrent one-year sentences.  However, defendant only pled guilty to one attempted third-degree sale count, and thus was only convicted of one count.  Accordingly, as the People concede, there was no legal basis for his second, concurrent sentence (see CPL 1.20[13], [14]).